Bhanu Kapil is a writer and Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. She is the autof six books, most recently How To Wash A Heart, which received the TS Eliot Prize. Her other titles include The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, Incubation: a space for monsters, humanimal and Schizophrene. She is also the recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize and a Cholmondeley Award, both for poetry.